SITE CHANGES

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I’d like to ensure that as and from this post going up, fellow writers do their best to use that they use the “below the fold” facility to keep as many posts as possible up on the main entry page to the site. I think this helps our reader contribute as fully as possible to the many excellent posts. Thanks for your help and for your continued support. Click through … Continue reading →

A LITTLE LIGHT

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Sheikh Ali Gomaa. Who is he? Well, he’s the kind of guy the BBC likes to champion as a “moderate”- one of those voices in the Islamic world that cries out for peace love and harmony. Unless you are a Christian in which case, I am afraid, he declares you are “an infidel”. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

ALL IN THE HEADLINE

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You can always rely on the BBC to paint Israel in the blackest colours. Take this headline currently running on the BBC portal “Israel strikes Gaza after “truce”.  You have to do some reading to understand that this is all a consequence of Hamastan firing rockets into Israel in the hope of some random killing of Jews. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

Foreign Affairs

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The English-language news station France 24 with its youthful, well-informed presenters makes BBC News 24 seem parochial.France 24’s extensive coverage of Gilad Shalit’s homecoming was, from what I’ve heard, broadly similar to the BBC’s. It was the main topic for the best part of two days. The French are conscious that the Shalit family are French-Israeli, but nevertheless their coverage of the released Palestinian prisoners and their families, and the … Continue reading →

ROTTEN TO THE CORE

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BBC bias flows from the top of the corporation. Lord Patten, the chairman of the trustees – that body that supposedly polices and enforces impartiality- is a foaming-at-the-mouth Europhile, as this interview shows. And now it has been revealed that Diane Coyle, his deputy – a fatcat quangocrat and former Indy financial journalist cosily married to BBC reporter Rory Cellan Jones – has accepted a role as advisor to the … Continue reading →

Experience Occupy Wall St.: In Person, In Their Own Words And Mine

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Where to begin?  First, let me say that of course I went down there with some preconceived notions and certain expectations, based on everything that’s been in the news and online about the Occupiers. My intentions were twofold: show what was going on without prejudice or cherry-picking, just letting the scene speak for itself, as well as engage in conversation with as many people as I could, asking questions to … Continue reading →

WE HAVE NO REASON TO DOUBT WHAT WE’RE TOLD BY OCCUPY PROTESTERS

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Two protesters from Occupy Birmingham – Chico and Thomas – were the studio guests on this morning’s BBC West Midlands 9am phone-in show with stand-in presenter Adrian Goldberg. Towards the end of the programme someone called in to offer advice to the guy claiming to be an ex-serviceman. Something about Chico’s response didn’t quite ring true. Luckily for him Goldberg was not interested in pressing the matter. Quite the opposite … Continue reading →